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ascetic sect of Judaism which inhabited the area north of the Dead Sea between approximately 200 BC - AD 100 (characterized by their strict adherence to the Bible)
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First century ascetic Jewish sect, in ancient Palestine from the second century BCE. to the second century CE. The Essenes are believed to be the authors of the Dead Sea scrolls
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plural form of Essene
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{n} a sect among the Jews who lived recluse, they admitted a future state, but denied a resurrection
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   a Jewish sect around the time of Jesus They are described by the first-century Jewish Authors Philo and Josephus, and by the Roman Pliny The Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to be the documents of an Essene community See Dead Sea Scrolls
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An ascetic sect of Judaism, mentioned by Josephus The Essenes seem to have originated in the second century BCE and came to an end in the second century CE Little is known of their life, but it is known that they were highly organized and communistic In some ways their lifestyle might be compared to later Christian monastic communities Some scholars have identified the Essenes with the community of the Dead Sea Scrolls The sect never spread beyond Palestine
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A SECT OF MYSTICAL JEWS Somewhat resembling the Pharisees They affected great purity They originated about B C 100, and disappeared from history after the destruction of Jerusalem They are not directly mentioned in Scripture, although they may be referred to in Matt 19: 11, 12, Col 2: 8, 18, 23 Some believe that John the Baptist and even Jesus was a member of this sect or that they were significantly influenced by them although this is purely speculation They are most notably associated with the Qumran communities which wrote the famous Dead Sea Scrolls
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Ascetic and monastic Jewish sect existing from the 2nd Century B C until the close of the First Century A D
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A large aesthetic sect that had rejected temple worship and lived away from Jerusalem John the Baptist may have been an Essene
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A Jewish group that lived in retreat in the wilderness of Judea between the first century B C E and the first C E , according to Josephus, the elder, Pliny, and Philo See also Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran
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According to Josephus, one of the three major sects of first-century c e Judaism Semi-ascetic in nature, the Essenes were spiritual descendants of the hasidim (meaning "pious") who had resisted Antiochus IV's attempts to destroy the Jewish religion Their apocalyptic convictions and certain of their rituals akin to baptism have suggested to some scholars that they were an influence on such representative pre-Christian figures as John the Baptist They are commonly identified with the Qumran community, which produced the Dead Sea Scrolls
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In addition to the Sadducees and the Pharisees, a third political group, the Essenes, emerged during the Hasmonean period The Essenes viewed both the Sadducees and the Pharisees as corrupters of Jewish law Many Essenes were celibate and viewed the world as a conflict between the spiritual (good) and the physical (bad) They were tremendously concerned with ritual purity The group that lived in Jerusalem kept itself separate from other Jews, fearing ritual contamination Some scholars believe that Essenes lived in small commune-like groups separate from the rest of the Jewish world There, they wore carefully washed white garments Some scholars believe that a desert commune found at Qumran by the Dead Sea was, in fact, an Essene community Whether it was connected to the Essenes or not, the Qumran Community was one of the most important archaeological finds of the past 50 years See Pharisees See Sadducees